Recommendation 19

DLUHC has committed to assessing if local authorities will need new burdens funding to help them to set up the schemes. It told us that it expects local authorities to fund the licensing schemes’ running costs through the fees they will charge participating providers.37 However, DLUHC has noted the difficulty that local authorities will face when trying to find a balance between a sufficiently robust licensing scheme and setting the fee at the right level to be able to appropriately recover costs without making it difficult for providers to access.38 Fraud